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2018-2019Year in Review TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction and Executive Summary 3 People 4 New Animal Law & Policy Clinic 6 Program Work and Achievements 8 Academic Courses 12 Animal Law & Policy Program in the Media 15 Policy and Practice 20 Scholarship and Presentations 22 Program Events 37 Placement 45 In Recognition 46 Looking Forward to the 2019–2020 Academic Year 47 Cover Photo by: Jo-Anne McArthur/We Animals 2 Animal Law & Policy Program | Harvard Law School | Year in Review 2018-2019 INTRODUCTION & EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As we complete our fourth year, the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program (ALPP) has broadened its existing focus on the welfare of animals raised for food to include the regulation of plant-based and cell-based alternatives to animal products, along with federal legislation that could have rolled back scores of state farmed animal welfare laws. This attention included convening a closed-door “Clean Meat Regulatory Roundtable” that included a former US Secretary of Agriculture, and witnessing the impact of our first formal policy report from May 2018 that identified over 3,000 different state and local laws that potentially could have been nullified under the King Amendment to the 2018 US Farm Bill. This year we also expanded our faculty and staff by hiring a Clinical Director and Clinical Instructor, to begin the next fiscal year, as well as hosting five Visiting Fellows and Visiting Researchers. We are all now in a new Harvard Law School building that just was completed this year and is the home of both the Animal Law & Policy Program and Clinic. Our faculty and staff continue to have substantial impact through their own extensive scholarship and policy work. We also dedicated our time and resources this year to foster and amplify the work of others by convening and hosting academic workshops and roundtables. These events explored topics such as identifying regulatory pathways for cell-based meat products, creating a new type of organization to accelerate development of alternatives to using animals in biomedical research, and establishing a humane education program in Egypt. We are extremely proud of the work we are doing and the team we continue to build. With the launch of our new Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic in the 2019-2020 academic year, our potential to contribute to the field of animal protection will expand even more substantially. 3 Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur/We Animals Animal Law & Policy Program | Harvard Law School | Year in Review 2018-2019 PEOPLE Animal Law & Policy Program Faculty and Staff The Animal Law & Policy Program is led by HLS Professor Kristen Stilt, who in addition to being Faculty Director of the ALPP, also is the Faculty Director of the HLS Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World. For the past two academic years, Professor Stilt also has served as Deputy Dean of Harvard Law School. Executive Director Chris Green collaborates with the Faculty Director in overseeing the Program’s strategic planning, coordinating, and development efforts, while our Program Administrator Ceallaigh Reddy manages all administrative and organizational needs. Beginning in Fall 2019 our core team will expand to include not only our Clinical Director and Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Katherine Meyer and Clinical Instructor Nicole Negowetti, but also Communications Manager Sarah Pickering and Clinical Fellow Kate Barnekow. Kristen Stilt Chris Green Ceallaigh Reddy Katherine Meyer Faculty Director Executive Director Program Administrator Clinic Director, Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor Nicole Negowetti Sarah Pickering Kate Barnekow Clinical Instructor Communications Manager Clinical Fellow Visiting Fellows & Researchers Each year the Animal Law & Policy Program hosts several Visiting Fellows and Visiting Researchers. These visiting appointments provide opportunities for outstanding scholars from a range of disciplines and legal practitioners to spend a semester or academic year in residence at HLS working on their own research, writing, and scholarly engagement on projects in the field of animal law and policy. During their stay they make use of the research facilities of the Law School and the University, participate in the intellectual life of the community, and present their scholarship in academic workshops. This past year we hosted three Visiting Fellows (whom we fund after a formal application and selection process), and two Visiting Researchers (who come to HLS with their own outside funding). 4 Animal Law & Policy Program | Harvard Law School | Year in Review 2018-2019 Our 2018–2019 Visiting Fellows and Researchers are listed alphabetically below with their research project titles: Helen Harwatt PhD, Environmental Social Science, Leeds University Assessing the Impacts of Food Systems on Environmental Sustainability, Public Health, and Ethics Matthew Hayek PhD, Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University Environmental Impacts from the Production and Sourcing of Farmed Animal and Plant Foods: A Geospatially Explicit Framework for Intersectional Research Katarina Hovden PhD Candidate, Law, University of Copenhagen Ecological Law and the Rights of Nature Christine Parker PhD, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne Developing a Conceptual Framework for Citizen-Retailer-Producer Engagement with an Integrated Range of Animal Welfare, Ecological, and Food Security Goals in Legal and Private Regulation of Farmed Animal Welfare and Production Saskia Stucki PhD, Law, University of Basel Elements of a Legal Theory of Animal Rights Human Rights and Animal Rights International Humanitarian Law and Animal Welfare Law 5 Animal Law & Policy Program | Harvard Law School | Year in Review 2018-2019 New Animal Law & Policy Clinic On July 1, 2019, we formally launched the Animal protection litigators in the field, having founded the Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School. Our new nation’s leading environmental and animal public Clinic will engage some of the world’s most promising interest law firm 26 years ago. At Meyer, Glitzenstein legal minds to work directly on real-time animal & Eubanks, Katherine also developed a long track law cases and policy projects, providing students record of training many other leading attorneys now with direct hands-on experience in policy making, practicing in the animal protection movement—as she research, litigation, legislation, administrative practice, did while teaching Civil Litigation and Public Interest and nonprofit governance—both in the US and Advocacy at the Georgetown University Law Center. internationally. These educational opportunities will Nicole Negowetti has been teaching at Harvard the permit Harvard Law School students to make crucial past two years as a Clinical Instructor and Lecturer contributions to the field and train a new generation of on Law with the HLS Food Law and Policy Clinic. leaders for the animal protection movement. Prior to that she was the Policy Director for the Good Food Institute and an Associate Professor of Law The Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic also at Valparaiso University. As a food systems policy has the ability to bring all of Harvard University’s expert, Nicole has focused her teaching, scholarship, institutional strengths and resources to bear on and advocacy on the impacts of industrial livestock developing creative strategies that leverage essential production on animal welfare, the environment, and synergies among law, science, and public policy. The human health. In addition to her work at the Animal effectiveness of such initiatives will be maximized by Law & Policy Clinic, in the 2019–2020 academic year formulating them in a setting that integrates the robust she will be teaching a reading group on “Disruptive foundational support of academic scholarship with Food Technologies: Law, Politics, and Policy.” the latest developments in clinical theory and legal practice. As such, the Clinic will play an important A generous grant from the Brooks McCormick Jr. Trust new role by spearheading innovative initiatives that for Animal Rights Law and Policy in October 2018 generate intellectual momentum in the practicing put us over the two-year funding threshold needed to field and help guide the course of the broader animal establish our new Clinic. We are extremely grateful to protection movement. the Brooks Trust and the other donors who have made the launch of the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic The Clinic is under the umbrella of the Animal Law & become a reality and could not be more excited to add Policy Program, and is being led by two exceptional this crucial new element to our existing Program. attorneys—Clinic Director and Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor Katherine Meyer, and Clinical Instructor Nicole Negowetti. Ms. Meyer joins Harvard Law School as one of the most experienced animal 6 Animal Law & Policy Program | Harvard Law School | Year in Review 2018-2019 New ALPP Offices in the Law School’s Latest Building The idea of even starting a new clinic at Harvard Law School barely would have been possible without the brand-new building the Law School just completed last fall at 1607 Massachusetts Avenue. Our dedicated space includes about half of the third floor with seven separate offices and ten student Clinic workstations. We moved in December 2018, and after hosting several academic workshops and roundtables, are fully settled in. We could not be happier to have all of our team finally under the same roof and we are incredibly fortunate to have this ample, cohesive